Chip Heath Quotes
Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
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It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
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Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power - and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness.
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On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.
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How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.
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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.
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I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
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If people start pulling away the stereotypes of what angels are instead of these fluffy, teddy-bear kinds of angels, then they'll see, historically, that they were terrifying in some depictions. In the Bible, from what I remember, often the reaction to angels is one of terror.
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Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.
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Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.
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Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
